Is getting 6 hours of sleep one night and 10 hours the next equivalent to sleeping 8 hours and 8 hours?

Question

Is getting 6 hours of sleep one night and 10 hours the next equivalent to sleeping 8 hours and 8 hours?

In: Biology

Answer 1

In UPT in the air force they taught us “You cannot bank sleep credits, but you can certainly go into sleep debt”. You can get back to normal, but you cant save up sleep for later. If you sleep 6 hrs one night, youll be a bit groggy maybe. You might need to sleep 10 hrs the next night to get back to normal. But just because you slept 10 hours last night does not mean you can only get 6 hours tonight and wake up feeling like you had a full 8.